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As an individual, the weapon that you are expected to use --- that General Washington and George Mason and James Madison would expect you to use --- is the pen.

Everywhere you see some leftist espouse the establishment of a police state, rebutt them. Write them simply; just a few select sentences.

Our duty right now, is to show up in numbers, in the media, making clear these facts:

Various wordings of the Second Amendment were tried during its development. The end result *purposefully* leaves out any enumeration of reasons why an individual has the right to keep and bear Arms. Any reason *why* an individual may or may not keep and bear Arms, was left to the states and the people thereof, to settle among themselves.
The only enumeration in the Second Amendment focuses on what to do about a group of men under Arms - what is to happen when individuals who bear military grade Arms are in a group, and they *are* capable of exercising martial power. What *then,* was to become of that power?
The answer was, that both the states and the federal government would rely upon *the group* being formally mustered, well-regulated, well trained to Arms, well discplined, and answerable to civilian authority.
Both the states and the federal government sought unity of function and preparedness of the militia of each state. The state militiae should be "well trained to Arms" and be capable of, and mindful of, lawfully exercising martial power and respecting lawful civilian authority.
In the old days up to around WW-I times and for a while thereafter, there was a tradition of local militia drilling on the common, the town green, or the county fairgrounds. It gave people an opportunity to remain somewhat familiar with military duty; it helped to keep them from becoming too rusty. It demonstrated the proper practices and discipline *for all to see.*
It is a shame that most communities and counties and states got out of that practice.
All the uses of weapons, firearm or not, for non-military purposes, were left to be decided by the states and their people.
Again, there would be no condition within the Second Amendment, by which you do, or do not, have the right to keep and bear Arms; because, the Founding Fathers correctly anticipated that any such enumerated condition might be used as grounds for an individual to either be forced to bear Arms or be stripped of their Arms.

Unlike in previous years and times, when we would hope to go about our business, without having to worry about the ever-present leftist thought police, there will be this time, no rest for us into the foreseeable future.

No weapons other than the pen, will do more for us.

We will have to go at the leftists again and again and again; always working along their lines, searching for where there is opportunity to push them back.

We *are* now, deep in a cultural civil war. Rush is *wrong.* There will be no winter seclusion nor rest. We are in the fight to the end, and it will take *years,* just as General Washington never, never, never quit.

Practice here at FR, what you want to say. Use clips of what others have written.

There is plenty of ammunition here, for writing in our common defense, as you reply to the wild political charges that the left is urging toward the establishment of a police state and "peoples courts" designed to exterminate people who love liberty.

What may seem minor to you, a letter of just two sentences, to your state level representatives and senator, and to your U.S. Representative, and to your U.S. Senators, and to any newspapers' editors ... just that little part by you, turns out to be much more than you can imagine right now.

You do not have to wear yourself out with worry. Instead, simply participate - write those letters.

The leftists cannot stand to have people resist them *consistently.* The leftists *expect* people who love liberty to be overwhelmed with doubt.

The leftists *expect* their psy-ops cultural civil warfare to be the only fighter in the ring after the first round. The leftists *expect* people who love liberty to emotionally collapse.

You may not realize it, but you have studied these problems all your life time during which you wondered how the Germans could have allowed a police state to crush their liberties and open the way for nationalizing socialists to destroy the freedom of millions of people and then their lives.

What the left wants most, is to destroy your will to win.

The left is petrified upon discovering every one of us who loves liberty, who becomes capable of writing - using the pen - with the proficiency of our use of Arms in defense of liberties.